2m in jail

[Brad De Long]

>  >
>>  Guardian (London) - February 15, 2000
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>>  Anger grows as US jails its two millionth inmate
>>  The land of the free is now home to 25% of the world's prison population
>>
>>  Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
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>	any ref's to people addressing the impact of this incarceration
>rate on unemployment figures?  both in terms of removing people from the
>labor force and in the impact of prison jobs.

Larry Katz and Alan Krueger estimate the increase in imprisonment 
since the 1960s as knocking 0.3% to 0.4% off of the 
officially-measured unemployment rate...

Brad DeLong